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miles distant from that now under notice, it will be remembered that 

 a pick of deer's-horn was found laid at the buried person's knees, 

 the instrument no doubt with which the grave had been dug (see p. 

 231) ; and I have met with several instances where broken splinters 

 of deer's antlers have occurred amongst the chalk filling-in of graves. 



This barrow produced a large number of burials, all of them, 

 with one exception, appearing to be secondary, and many of them 

 mere insertions. They were all placed at a very slight depth 

 beneath the present surface of the mound. 



At a distance of 14 ft. south-west of the centre was the body of 

 a man, placed 6 ft. above the natural surface, and laid on his right 

 side, with the head to W.N.W., and the hands up to the face. At 

 the crown of the head was a * food vessel/ and behind the head a 

 long flint scraper, made from the outside of a nodule of flint, the 

 end only being chipped into shape. The * food vessel ' is in shape 

 like fig. 71, with six unpierced ears at the shoulder, 5J in. high, 

 6f in. wide at the mouth, and 3 in. at the bottom. It is covered 

 over the whole surface and on the inside of the lip of the rim with 

 very short lines of twisted-thong impressions arranged herring-bone 

 fashion. The body had been inserted in the barrow, which, as has 

 already been observed, was made of chalk, and the hollow in which 

 it was placed had been filled in with earth, but along the back of 

 the body some large flat pieces of chalk were set on edge. Twenty- 

 seven feet west-by-south of the centre, and 4J ft. above the surface, 

 was the body of another man, laid on the left side, with the head to 

 N.N.W., the right hand being up to the face and the left on the 

 right arm. At the feet was a very beautifully-formed oval flint 

 knife, 2| in. long, very evenly and skilfully serrated along one edge. 

 Twenty-one feet west-south-west from the centre, and 6 ft. above 

 the ground-level, was the body of a woman, laid on the right side, 

 with the head to N.W. by N. ; the right arm was extended and the 

 hand placed under the knees, the left hand being up to the face. 

 Between the head and the knees was a ' food vessel.' This body 

 was evidently an insertion, and was deposited in a hollow filled in 

 with earth, having a thin chalk flag laid over the knees and the 

 vessel. This, which is very rudely made, is shaped much like an 

 ordinary flower-pot, 4-J- in. high, 5J in. wide at the mouth, and 3 in. 

 at the bottom, and is ornamented over the whole surface and on 

 the inside of the lip of the rim with encircling lines of impressions 

 of very coarsely-twisted thong. Close to the last body were the 

 remains of a disturbed one, with many pieces of a * drinking-cup,' 



